BOARD00648

• Board Meeting Date: 1/27/1999
• Description: ISF Section - Informational Item - Proposed Fourmile Creek Instream Flow Segments - Water Division 2 - Teller and Fremont Counties
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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Colorado Water Conservation Board

Department of Natural Resources
721 Centennial Building
1313 Sherman Street
Der:ve'. Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]

STATE OF COLORADO

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Bill Owens
Governor

MEMORANDUM

Greg E. Walcher
Executive Director, ONR

TO:

Colorado Water Conservation Board Members

Peter H. Evans
Acting Director, eWeB

FROM: Dan Merriman
Mark Uppendahl

DATE: January 5,1999

SUBJECT: Agenda Item 6a, January 27-28, 1999, Board Meeting--
Instream Flow Program - Informational Item -
Proposed Fourmile Creek Instream Flow Segments
Water Division 2, Teller and Fremont Counties

Summary of Board Actions Ree:ardine: Fourmile Creek

On December 9, 1998, the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB), at its special meeting,
elected to table action on the proposed four Fourmile Creek instream flow segments until more
biological data could be collected. The CWCB directed its staff to coordinate this additional data
collection effort.

Staff Action

As directed by the Board, staff is currently planning to collect additional data regarding the
proposed four Fourmile Creek instream flow segments. Staff has requested the Division of
Wildlife (DOW) assist the Board's staff in collecting this additional instream flow data on
. Fourmile Creek. Staff has also contacted Roy Smith, BLM Instream Flow Coordinator, and
made him aware of the Board's intention to collect additional data and invited the BLM to
participate in this collection effort. Staff will also inform representatives of the City of Cripple
Creek and the Cripple Creek and Victor Gold Mining Company of staffs data collection effort
and will invite their participation. In addition, the staff will contact the local land and water
users on Fourmile Creek and invite their participation in this data collection effort. Staff is
planning on collecting this additional data in late March or early April, before the start of spring
runoff.

Staff will also collect and review additional hydrologic data pertaining to its water availability
analysis. This additional data will include: reviewing the 1998 Division 2 Water Court Resumes
to determine the etIects, if any, of any new water rights on the original Fourmile Creek water
availability analysis, reviewing the 1997-98 stream data collected at the Fourmile Creek USGS